> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:47:58 -0700 (PDT), in alt.atheism
> Devils Advocaat yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
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>>On 13 Sep, 06:29, janpa...@gmail.com wrote:

>>> If we are to believe in claims of subsequent religious institutions,
>>> our planet Earth is packed with atheists, while only rare people
>>> believe in God.

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>>The Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary gathers considerable data on
>>the various religions, denominations and non-religious types around
>>the world on a regular basis.

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>>Their most recent publication gives the following mid-2007 estimates:

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>>World Population: 6.616 billion

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>>Christians: 2.196 billion

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>>Non-Christians: 4.420 billion

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>>And of this last figure, only 154 million are atheists.

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>>Which is about 2.33%% of the entire planetary population.

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>>So perhaps the sources causing the concern expressed in your opening
>>statement are lumping the non-Christians in with the atheists to make
>>the world look bad.

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> But don't forget that the family of religions known as "Christian"
> disagrees so much with each other that there are thousands of
> denominations, including denominations dishonestly entitled
> 'nondenominational'.